The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
Deepak ChopraRead
You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.
Interpretation
Your perception of the universe is always filtered through your own consciousness.
This quote by Deepak Chopra emphasizes the idea that our experience of reality is inherently subjective; there is no perspective beyond our own consciousness. It suggests that all understanding and interpretation of the universe are shaped by our inner thoughts, beliefs, and perceptions, highlighting the interconnectedness of self and the universe at large.
In practice
This quote could be used in a mindfulness workshop to highlight the importance of self-awareness.
The subtler one's awareness, the more powerfully it can heal.
To promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body - cells, tissues, organs and systems -- and arrive at a junction point between mind and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts to have an effect.
It is only because you take your mind to be yourself, and make it dwell on what you are not, that you lose your sense of well-being.
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.
I will practice acceptance. Today I will accept people, situations, circumstances, and events as they occur. I will know that this moment is as it should be, because the whole universe is as it should be. I will not struggle against the whole universe by struggling against this moment. My acceptance is total and complete. I accept things as they are this moment, not as I wish they were.
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.
It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding; and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.
There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal... [even if] the animal were a human being.
The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.
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